Mephistophelian

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A form of mephistophelean — Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

adjectiveMephistophelian (comparative more Mephistophelian, superlative most Mephistophelian)

comparative more Mephistophelian · superlative most Mephistophelian

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Mephistophelean.

    And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.

    1989, Howard Aiken, “Early Inventors”, in Robert Slater, editor, Portraits in Silicon, The MIT Press, →ISBN
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    But, sitting by the opening of Ismail's Muslim Eating Shop, Inder Singh was spooning in soup, tall, thin, saturnine, his beard cut, contrary to the laws of religion, trimmed in a Mephistophelian manner, his turban neat and starched[.]

    1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 288

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveshowing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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